Panel: By Our Hand, On The Land. Book dreams do come true at the Petersburg Book Fest - a day full of literary delights, food, author meet-and-greets, and of course BOOKS!

Ashanté M. Reese is joined in conversation by University of Mississippi professor of anthropology and Southern Studies, Jodi Skipper.

In times like these especially, the power of gathering over shared nourishment and experience ripens with political possibility in anthropologist Ashanté Reese’s Gather, joyful festivity in entertaining expert Amber Mayfield Hewett’s Your Turn to Host, and fulsome flavor in chef Natasha Pickowicz’s Everyone Hot Pot. Join us for a wide-ranging conversation moderated by Danielle Davenport, co-founder of BEM, a bookstore and foundation celebrating Black food books.

Most people don’t think about this, but food helps create a space for vital dialogue, community and survival. In this fireside chat, Ashanté Reese will discuss her book Gather, unpacking how food spaces function as critical sites of connection and resistance.

6th Annual Gathering for San Diego County Food Vision 2030.

Anthropologist Ashanté M. Reese will be discussing Gather, her book about food justice, community food systems, and how to embrace local power.

Dr. Reese will be joined in conversation by Dr. Jessica Walker. Q&A and book signing to follow discussion; books will be available for purchase.

Facilitated by Charlene Carruthers (Founding Director, Black Youth Project 100). Panelists include Jafari Allen (Columbia University), Roderick Ferguson (Yale University), Jaden Janak (St. Olaf College), Barbara Ransby (University of Illinois Chicago), Ashanté Reese (University of Texas at Austin), and Ula Taylor (University of California, Berkeley).

Ashanté M. Reese will be discussing Gather in conversation with Dr. Symone Johnson, professor of African and Black Diaspora Studies.

Join online to hear Ashanté M. Reese sharing about teaching and pedagogy in food studies.